CIIS Photo Contest

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Patti McGill Peterson Center for International and Intercultural Studies

CIIS has a photo contest every 18 months for students who have participated in a SLU off-campus program (which includes the Adirondack Semester, the Washington Semester Program and Fisk University), a SLU course with a travel component a SLU summer course or a SLU-sponsored research/travel grant. The photographs are used for promoting SLU off-campus programs, on various web pages, and the winning photographs are displayed in Carnegie Hall.

The next photo contest deadline will be November 1, 2010. If you would like more information feel free to contact us.

Details & rules available online.

  • First Place
    Cityscape/landscape
    Although beautiful during the day, the Ponte Vecchio, Florence’s most famous bridge, takes on a whole new splendor at night.
    Photo by
    Amy Atkins
    Ponte Vecchio, Italy
  • First Place
    Cultural moment
    These children from our homestay village, not yet old enough to attend school away from the Maasai village, spent the morning learning from an older member of the group. If you look closely at the blackboard, you will notice that they are learning Englis
    Photo by
    Lyndsay Bisaccio
    Maasai "classroom"
  • First Place
    Detail
    This is a picture from our trip to Venice, looking out onto the water at gondolas from near Piazza San Marco just before it started to rain.
    Photo by
    Amanda Earley
    Venice gondolas
  • First Place
    People's choice
    Peter Tucker ('09) on Gothics Mountain in the Adirondacks
    Photo by
    Laura Sisco
    Peter Tucker on Gothics Mountain
  • First Place
    People's choice
    The ocean is omnipresent in Chile. Its energy captivates everyone. This photo was taken through a rusty chain hole at Pablo Neruda´s house in Isla Negra, where memory, nostalgia, and history are reflected in the massive Pacific Ocean.
    Photo by
    Adrian Cordero Calderon
    Neruda's Ocean, Chile
  • First Place
    People's choice
    Wes Norton ('11) and Arla Casselman ('11) at an apple orchard just outside of Potsdam, NY.
    Photo by
    Anna Rehm
    Apple ADK
  • Second Place
    Cityscape/landscape
    The light reflections are from Pisa, crossing over the bridge to see the leaning tower
    Photo by
    Marco Falcon-Viale
    Pisa at night
  • Second Place
    Cultural moment
    Pushkar, a bustling town in dusty Rajasthan in northwest India holds a famous Camel Fair annually, where thousands of adorned camels set up shop with their owners on the dry, hilly outskirts.
    Photo by
    Joanna Fassett
    Pushkar women
  • Second Place
    SLU student
    Chelsea McKenzie (’11) is carrying water back with one of her Massai homestay brothers. She walked about 2 kilometers to fetch the water. Some NGOs in Kenya are trying to persuade the Massai to use camels as livestock instead of cows.
    Photo by
    Laura Sisco
    Chelsea ('11) fetching water
  • Honorable Mention
    Cityscape/landscape
    While in Italy I found many hidden treasures, things that I could easily miss if I didn’t bother to open that last door or turn that last corner. In Padua on a class trip, we went to the big cathedral and to a number of smaller churches. This picture was
    Photo by
    Amy Atkins
    Pisa, Italy
  • Honorable Mention
    Cityscape/landscape
    Giraffes at the Shompole Group Ranch in Kenya
    Photo by
    Lyndsay Bisaccio
    Shompole giraffes
  • Honorable Mention
    Detail
    While in Italy I found many hidden treasures, things that you could easily miss if you didn’t bother to open that last door or turn that last corner. In Padua on a class trip, we went to the big cathedral and to a number of smaller churches. This picture
    Photo by
    Amy Atkins
    Dome painting, Italy
  • Honorable Mention
    Detail
    In the morning light, a pedestrian walks on the stone steps and road leading into town. Most of the town of Korčula was constructed with the same type of rock we were studying, so even walking to breakfast involved stepping on stones filled with fossils.
    Photo by
    Charlie Harman
    Alley in Korcula, Croatia
  • Honorable Mention
    SLU student
    Visiting the Red Rose School in Kibera, Kenya. Dr. Erika Barthelmess (taking a picture) Johanna Mackenzie ('09, smiling and looking at camara), Emily Russell ('11, smiling at kids)
    Photo by
    Emmanuel Mbong
    Red Rose